Question for Scott Rouse re: Retroclones

[Mallus]

Originally Posted by Windjammer

I could be reading this wrong, but this comes off as a veiled insult.

And whence the preoccupation to detect/impugn "motifs" to the asking of questions instead of wishing to see them answered?

Joe is a lawyer.

Joe asked an employee of WotC, whose been helpful and friendly to the ENWorld community, to make legally inadvisable statements in a public forum.

What do you make of this?

(And it's 'motives', not 'motifs'. Impugning a person's motifs is something done in art, music, or literary criticism .)

[Imaro]

Originally Posted by Mallus

Joe is a lawyer.

Joe asked an employee of WotC, whose been helpful and friendly to the ENWorld community, to make legally inadvisable statements in a public forum.

What do you make of this?

(And it's 'motives', not 'motifs'. Impugning a person's motifs is something done in art, music, or literary criticism .)

That Joe wants to know...

[joethelawyer]

Originally Posted by xechnao

It is a principle to consider or debate about. How much power should businesses have. How should they operate. How should the economy operate. Cause you know even the games that get developed and how we play and entertain ourselves are subject to this parameter.

Here's a guy who gets me. We're on the same wavelength man.

[Mallus]

Originally Posted by xechnao

It is a principle to consider or debate about. How much power should businesses have. How should they operate. How should the economy operate.

Funny, I thought we came here to discuss pretending to be an elf.

(also, considering that no company has the power to stop Hairfoot, or anyone else, for that matter, from playing the game of their choosing, I'm not really clear on what your point is)

[Mallus]

Originally Posted by joethelawyer

Here's a guy who gets me. We're on the same wavelength man.

I'll give you this, Joe, I'm a guy who's pretty hard-left on issues of copyright and IP law, and you have me siding with the corporation!

[Mallus]

Originally Posted by Imaro

That Joe wants to know...

Huh... I was shooting for 'Joe should know better

[Piratecat]

I am so very tired of babysitting a very small number of threads, and this thread is one of them.

EDIT: More explanation is probably needed. We normally get 2, maybe 3 reported posts a day. We've gotten 31 since yesterday, with vastly the lion's share from this thread and the other one or two I closed. I don't know what it is, but people on both sides of the issue were being repeatedly rude. As always, we don't have a lot of interest in micromanaging threads like that, so closed it goes.

Klunk.